Re: system variables for win2k

[Antoine Levy-Lambert]

THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
from the manual:
"Windows and OS/2
Assume Ant is installed in c:\ant\. The following sets up the environment:
set ANT_HOME=c:\ant
set JAVA_HOME=c:\jdk1.2.2
set PATH=%PATH%;%ANT_HOME%\bin"
my system variables:
ANT_HOME           "C:\ant"                                //do I 
want a "/" at the end?
 

NO
JAVA_HOME          "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0\bin\"   //do I 
want a "/" at the end?
 

NO; also JAVA_HOME should be C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0
without double quotes around it
PATH               "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0\bin\"   //do I 
want a "/" at the end?
 

No
also no double quotes
what should the value of PATH be?  i'm using start/settings/control 
panel/system/advanced/environmental variables/system variables/ to 
set/get this info.  I prefer this method to set the var's because I 
can check that they have the correct values, versus clobbering(?) 
from the command line.  am I alone in finding this arcane?  For 
instance, is PATH specific to java, or do other applications use that 
variable? 

PATH is used by the command interpreter to find a command that you want 
to start, without you
having to type in the full path where it is. If 

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0\bin
is in the path, then you can type "java" in a DOS box,
and the system
will understand that you want to run 

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0\bin\java.exe 

from the general nature of the word "path" I infer many 

different applications would use this variable, it strikes me as odd 

that it should be the JDK's path..?  sorry for the digression, pls 

just help me set these variables so everything works, the why is 

incidental at this point :)

thanks,
Thufir


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